Soon after the election, weeks before he took office, Trump got a lot of attention for claiming he saved 1,100 jobs at a Carrier furnace plant in Indiana that were headed Mexico. In fact, 300 of those jobs were always slated to stay in Indianapolis, so it was 800 jobs that stayed in the U.S.

And Carrier has said publicly that some of those 800 saved jobs would eventually be eliminated by automation. But well before that happens, another 600 Carrier jobs are still moving to Mexico. About half of those layoffs will be in July, while the rest will come by Christmas.

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According to CNBC, the agreement made by the president with the company was to employ at least 1,069 people at the Indianapolis plant for ten years in exchange for $7 million in incentives. The stipulation with the deal is that around only 730 jobs are in the manufacturing field, which was one of the main reasons the president touted the deal as a success.

Another aspect of the deal that was said to be successful was the fact that the company promised to invest $16 million in the facility. Trump claimed that that money would go towards adding jobs but in reality it will be used to add automation in the factory and would ultimately result in fewer jobs, reports CNBC.